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Show Reaching the End . The Japanese reply to the American Amer-ican protest in regards to the sinking sink-ing of the Panay tfaas beenjaccept-ed beenjaccept-ed by the gov'riJfrnt i and so the incident is closed, without warfare although with some loss of American Ameri-can lives and, perhaps, prestige. Public opinion in the United States, so far as we were able to judge, stiffened considerably during dur-ing the negotiation. Tire sentiment senti-ment for peace, strong as it un-d: un-d: ubterily is, could not entirely obliterate ob-literate the feeling that Japan .had given this country a monstrous affront af-front in the killing of Americans through a deliberate attack upon an American warship. The mere one reflects upon the Panay incident the more clear is the conclusion that the Japanese deliberately attacked the American -ship with premeditated intent to sink the vessel, regardless of loss of life. When a nation reaches the point that it is willing to accept calmly ar.d without retaliation such wanton agression its people are reaching the end of their importance, import-ance, regardless of how much money they make and how high their standard of living may be. |